1591 Roanoke Island settlers having disappeared, the colony is abandoned.

1606 April 10. James I grants joint charter to two companies to colonize 'Virginia.'

1607 May 14. First permanent English settlement in the New World established at Jamestown.

1607 August. Colonists of Plymouth Company land at Kennebec (Maine) but make only temporary settlement.
December. Captain John Smith saved by Pocahontas.

1608 January 12. Arrival of 'First Supply.'

1609 May 23. London Company granted second charter.

1609-10 'Starving Time'; between September and June population drops from about 500 to 60.

1610 May 23. Sir Thomas Gates, first governor, arrives at Jamestown.
June 8. Colonists having abandoned Jamestown, return upon arrival of Thomas West, Lord Delaware, at Point Comfort.

1611 March 12. London Company granted third charter. (March 22, 1612, n.s.)

1612 John Rolfe introduces the cultivation of tobacco for export.

1613 John Rolfe marries Pocahontas at Jamestown.

1619 July 30. First representative legislature in America--House of Burgesses
--meets in Jamestown.
August 30. First Negroes arrive at Jamestown.
First iron foundry in America established on Falling Creek.

1620 First shipload of 'maids' arrives to become wives of settlers.
December 11. Pilgrims, authorized to settle in southern Virginia, land at
Plymouth, having been thrown off course.

1622 March 22. Indian Massacre wipes out about one third of colonists.

1624 June 16. London Company's charter revoked by King's Bench; Virginia
becomes royal colony.
Doctrine of no taxation without representation is first asserted in Virginia by burgesses.

1628-29 Population about 3,000.

1629 October 30. Province of Carolina carved from Virginia by royal grant to
Sir Robert Heath.

1632 Province of Maryland carved from Virginia by royal grant to Lord Baltimore.

1634 First eight counties formed.
February 12. Syms Free School endowed-first educational institution
endowed and oldest free school in the United States.

1635 Population about 5,000.
Sir John Harvey 'thrust out' by council and burgesses, who make first assertion of colonists' right to order own government.

1754 George Washington with Virginia troops advances against the French in
the Ohio Valley, precipitating French and Indian War.

1755 July 9. Upon fatal wounding of General Edward Braddock, Washington
rallies British regulars and Colonials near Fort Duquesne.

1755-56 Population 294,000, including 120,000 Negroes.

1758 November 25. Fort Duquesne occupied.

1759 General assembly creates standing committee of correspondence to exchange information with colony's agent in London.

1763 December 1. Patrick Henry flouts British rule in the Parsons' Cause.
French and Indian War ends; transmontane region ceded to British.
Royal proclamation forbids further grants west of Alleghenies.

1765 May 29. Patrick Henry, protesting the Stamp Act, delivers in house of
burgesses 'Caesar-Brutus' speech.

1766 February 27. One hundred and fifteen patriots sign Leedstown Resolutions embodying principles later incorporated in Declaration of Independence.

1769 First 'lunatic asylum' in America established at Williamsburg.

1773 March 14. Burgesses develop intercolonial committee of correspondence,
which includes four members of old committee.

1774 May 27. Burgesses meet in Raleigh Tavern, call convention, and propose
congress of the Colonies.June 1. Virginia observes Fast Day in protest of Boston Port Bill.
August 1. First Virginia Convention meets, chooses delegates to Continental Congress.
September 5. Peyton Randolph of Virginia elected president of First Continental Congress.
October 10. General Andrew Lewis defeats Shawnee at Point Pleasant
(now West Virginia).

1775 March 23. Patrick Henry delivers 'liberty or death' speech in Second
Virginia Convention in Richmond.
June 15. Washington chosen commander in chief of Continental Army.
October 24. First bloodshed of Revolution in Virginia at Hampton.

1776 May 6-June 29. Fifth Virginia Convention meets in Williamsburg, declares Virginia independent State, instructs Virginia's delegates to Continental Congress to propose independence; adopts George Mason's declaration of rights and first constitution of a free and independent state,
and elects Patrick Henry first governor of Commonwealth.
June 7. Richard Henry Lee offers in Continental Congress resolutions for
independence, foreign alliances, and a form of confederacy.
July 2. Lee's resolutions adopted by Congress.
July 4. Declaration of Independence, phrased by Thomas Jefferson,
adopted by Congress.
December 5. Phi Beta Kappa Society, first intercollegiate fraternity in
United States, founded at Williamsburg.
Kentucky established as a county of Virginia.

1778 July 9. Virginia ratifies Articles of Confederation.

1779 February 25. George Rogers Clark with Virginia troops takes Vincennes.
May 9. First formal invasion of Virginia by British who came by sea.
June 15. Act passed authorizing removal of capital to Richmond.
First law school in America established at College of William and Mary,
which that year became first American university.

1787 May 25. George Washington elected president of Constitutional Convention, meeting at Philadelphia.
May 29. Governor Edmund Randolph submits to Convention Madison's
Virginia Plan-basis of deliberations.

1788 June 26. Virginia ratifies Federal Constitution, 89 to 79.

1789 April 30. George Washington inaugurated first President of United
States.
December 3. Virginia cedes to United States part of area for seat of government.

1790 Population 747,610, including 305,493 Negroes of whom about 12,000 are
free.
Virginia Legislature remonstrates against Assumption Bill-first remonstrance of a state against a Federal act.

1791 December 15. America's Bill of Rights added to the Constitution when
nine amendments offered by James Madison and tenth by Richard
Henry Lee are ratified.

1799 First ship constructed by the Federal Government-the Chesapeake-is
built at the Gosport Navy Yard.

1800 Population 880,200, including 345,896 slaves and 20,124 free Negroes.

1801 March 4. Thomas Jefferson inaugurated President.

1803 February 23. Chief justice John Marshall of Virginia hands down opinion
asserting U.S. Supreme Court's right of Judicial review.
April 30. James Monroe, Jefferson's emissary, concludes treaty with
France for Purchase of Louisiana Territory.

1859 October 16. John Brown and band seize U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry,
are later suppressed by troops under Colonel R.E.Lee.
December 2. John Brown hanged.

1860 Population 1,596,318, including 490,865 slaves and 58,042 free Negroes.

1861 February 4. 'Peace Conference,' called by Virginia Legislature, meets in
Washington, attended by representatives of 21 states.
February 13. State Convention (Secession Convention) meets, but refuses
to consider secession until peace overtures are exhausted.
April 17. State Convention votes for secession 88 to 55.
April 25. Virginia joins the Confederate States.
May 21. Richmond chosen capital of Confederacy.
July 21. First Battle of Manassas.

1862 March 9. Battle between Monitor and Merrimac in Hampton Roads.
March 23. Battle of Kernstown (beginning of Jackson's Valley Campaign).
June 26. Seven Days' Battles around Richmond begin.
August 29-30. Second Battle of Manassas.
December 13. Battle of Fredericksburg.

1863 May 2-3. Battle of Chancellorsville; Jackson mortally wounded.
June 20. Virginia divided; West Virginia admitted as a State.

1864 May 5-6. Battle of Wilderness.
May 8-18. Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse.
June 3. Second Battle of Cold Harbor.
June 15-18. Battle of Petersburg; siege begins.

1865 April 2-3. Richmond and Petersburg evacuated by Confederates.
April 9. Lee surrenders at Appomattox.
May 22. Jefferson Davis imprisoned at Fort Monroe.

1867 March 2. Virginia designated as Military District No.1 under Reconstruction Act.
May 13. Jefferson Davis, arraigned in Richmond and indicted for treason,
is admitted to bail.

1869 July 6. New State constitution ratified.
October 8. Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to Constitution ratified.

1870 Population 1,225,163, including 512,841 Negroes.
January 26. Virginia readmitted to Union.

1880 Population 1,512,565, including 631,616 Negroes.

1889 April 24. Simpson dry dock, largest in world, opened at Newport News.

1902 July 10. New State constitution, effective by proclamation, improving
public education and governmental efficiency and virtually eliminating
Negro vote through poll tax and 'understanding clause.'

1907 April 26. Jamestown Exposition opens to commemorate 300th anniversary of first landing of English settlers at Cape Henry.
December 16. Atlantic Fleet, commanded by Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans of Virginia, leaves Hampton Roads for World Cruise.

1908 Staunton, Virginia, is first city to adopt city manager form of government.

1915 June 14. U.S. Supreme Court decision places upon West Virginia obligation to share Virginia's ante-bellum State debt.

1917 April 6. President Wilson signs Congressional Act declaring war upon
Germany.
Hampton Roads becomes great naval and military base.

1918 The College of William and Mary admits women.
The budget system, sponsored by Governor Westmoreland Davis, is
adopted.

1920 Population 2,309,187, including 690,017 Negroes.
Women admitted to graduate and professional schools of University of
Virginia.
November 2. Virginia women vote, though Virginia had voted against
ratification of Nineteenth Amendment.

1922 February 27. State Board of Public Welfare evolves from State Board of
Charities and Corrections.
March 24. State Highway Commission created.
March 27. Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court established.

1924 March 20. Act provides for sterilization of persons committed to State institutions.

1927 April 27. Act for reorganization of State government, sponsored by Governor Harry Flood Byrd, passes general assembly.

1930 Population 2,421,851, including 650,165 Negroes.
March 17. Legislative act exempts new manufactories from taxation for
five years under specified conditions.

1938 March 31. Public assistance Act revised and approved, in conformity with
Federal Social Security Act, to render old age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and for general relief.

Current information is readily available in the tourist guides issued by the Virginia Conservation Commission; commercial, industrial, and tourist publications, issued by the State Chamber of Commerce and chambers of commerce of cities; booklets of the Department of Agriculture and Immigration of Virginia; and information and maps issued by the Virginia Department of Highways. The industrial and agricultural surveys, issued by the Engineering Extension Division and Agricultural Extension Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the economic and social surveys in the University of Virginia Record Extension Series are published separately for each county, with about half of the counties covered.

The first explorations of the trans-Allegheny region by the Virginians, 1650-74. Cleveland, Arthur H. Clark Co.,1912. 275p.,maps.

Anburey, Thomas. Travels through the Interior Parts of America; in a series of letters, by an officer.

London, W.Lane, 1791. 2 vols.,maps. First pub. 1789. The letters begin at Cork in 1776 and end at Falmouth in 1781.

Burnaby, Rev.Andrew. Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America,in the Years 1759 and 1760, with Observations upon the State of the Colonies.

2nd ed. London, T.Payne,1775.198p.

Chastellux, (Francois-Jean) Marquis de. Travels in North America, in the Years 1780-81-82.

Tr. from the French by an English gentleman, who resided in America at that period. Copied from Grieve's 1787 translation, with notes and corrections by the American editor. New York, White,Gallaher,& White,1827. 416p. Reprinted in New York, no publisher given, in 1828.
Pub. Paris 1786, Dublin and London 1787.

Davis, John. Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America during 1798,1799,1800,1801,and 1802.

New York, Dodd,Mead,& Co.,1916. 374p.,sketches. An account of travel; personal incidents and bits of history.

Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia.

A new edition, printed from Jefferson's own copy of the London edition, with his last additions and corrections in manuscript and four maps of caves, mounds, fortifications, etc. Translations of all Jefferson's notes in foreign languages by Prof.Schele de Vere. Richmond,1853. 275p. First pub. in Paris in 1784, in London, 1787; Philadelphia, 1788; and subsequently in many editions.

Kern, M.Ethel Kelley. The Trail of the Three Notched Road.

Rev.ed. Richmond, The William Byrd Press,Inc., 1929. 334p.,illus.,maps,bibl. An account of the old road from Richmond to Staunton.

Travels through the United States of North America . . . in the years 1795-1796, and 1797.

Lynchburg, J.P.Bell Co.,1913. 362p.,colored plates, half-tones. Treats of 185 species and subspecies that breed within the State, but lacks descriptive identifications and all half-tones are of nests and the young.

University, Virginia, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences,1930. 900p. A classifled list, with critical notes, of all published matter touching on the period since 1865, including locations of known copies.

Ed. by L.G.Tyler, 1892-1919; J.A.C.Chandler, E.G.Swem,1921 to date. Pub. by William and
Mary College at Williamsburg,Va.
First Series, July 1892-April 1919. Vols. 1-27. (Vols. 4-27 Richmond.)
Second Series, January 1921-38. Vols. 1-18.

Early Period

Abernathy, Thomas Perkins. Western Lands and the American Revolution.

New York, D.Appleton-Century Co.,1937. 413p.,maps. (University of Virginia for Research in the Social Sciences.)

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press,1895. 99p.,refer. (Johns Hopkins University Studies.) A study of the system of indentured labor in the American colonies.

Bayne, Howard R. A Rebellion in the Colony of Virginia.

New York,1904. 916p. Bacon's rebellion-1676. (From the Historical papers of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York, No. 7,1904.)

Beverley, Robert. History of Virginia, in Four Parts.

Reprinted from the author's 2nd rev. ed., London, 1722, with an intro. by Charles Campbell. Richmond, JW.Randolph,1855. 264p.). First printed in London in 1705; translated and printed in Paris and in Amsterdam in 1707; 2nd London ed.,1722, revised and brought up to 1720. Beverley affords a vivid, comprehensive, instructive, and entertaining picture of Virginia at his time.

Bouldin, Powhatan. The Old Trunk, or Sketches of Colonial Days.

Richmond, Andrews, Baptist, and Clemmitt,1888. 53p.

Brown, Alexander. The First Republic in America.

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1898. 688p. An account of the origin of the nation, written from the records then (1624) concealed.

Brown, Alexander,ed. The Genesis of the United States.

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co.,1890, reprinted 1897. 2 vols. A series of historical manuscripts now first printed, together with a reissue of rare tracts, bibliographical memoranda, notes, brief biographies, and maps.

Bruce, Philip Alexander. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century.

New York and London, The Macmillan Co.,1896. 2 vols.,refer. Repr. 1907. A standard work.

______Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century.

New York and London, G.P.Putnam's Sons,1910. 2 vols.,refer. A companion work to the Economic History.

Burk, John Daly. The History of Virginia from Its First Settlement to the Present Day.

Petersburg, Dickson & Pescud,1804-16. 4 vols. Vol.4, begun by Burk, added to by Skelton Jones, and completed by Louis Hue Girardin, brings the history to 1781.

Byrd, William. Writings of 'Col. William Byrd of Westover in Virginia Esq.'

Ed. by John Spencer Bassett. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co. 1901. 461p. Contains 'The History of the Dividing Line between Virginia and North
Carolina, 1728-29'; 'A Progress to the Mines, 1732'; 'A journey to the
Land of Eden, 1733; and other papers. These papers have been published
in other editions, at Petersburg in 1841; at Richmond in 1866, and at New
York in 1928.

Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts Preserved in the Capital in Richmond; Covering the Period from 1652 to 1869.

First Series: Philadelphia, William S. Martien,1850. 568p. Second Series, Philadelphia, J.B.Lippincott Co.,2nd ed.,1856. 596p. Vast collection of material on Presbyterian Church in Virginia, stories of Indian wars, etc.

Force, Peter (Collector). Tracts and Other Papers, Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America, from the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776.

Washington, P.Force,1836-46. 4 vols. A valuable collection that includes much on Virginia.

Hariot, Thomas. Narrative of the First English Plantation of Virginia.

First printed in London in 1588, now reproduced after De Bry's illustrated edition, Frankfort,1590, the illustrations having been designed in Virginia in 1585 by John White. London, B.Quaritch,1893. 111p. Thomas Hariot was
one of the voyagers to Roanoke Island.

Smith, Captain John. Travels and Works of Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England, 1580-1631.

Ed. by Edward Arber. A new edition, with a biographical and critical introduction by A.G.Bradley. Edinburgh, John Grant,1910. 2 vols.,illus.,maps. Contemporary docu-
ments are included, pp.i-cxxxvi, and a bibliography includes the various
editions of Smith's works and of works on Smith.

Squires, W.H.T. The Days of Yester-year in Colony and Commonwealth.

Portsmouth,Va., Printcraft Press,Inc.,1928. 301p.,illus. A sketch book of Virginia.

Stanard, Mary Newton. Colonial Virginia: Its People and Custom.

Philadelphia and London, J.B.Lippincott Co.,1917. 376p.,illus.

______The Story of Virginia's First Century.

Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott Co.,1928. 322p.,illus.

Stewart, Robert Armistead. The History of Virginia's Navy of the Revolution.

Richmond, Mitchell and Hotchkiss, 1934. 279p.

Stith, William. The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia.

New York, J.Sabin,1865. 331p. The history ends with 1624. (Sabin's reprint of Williamsburg ed. of 1747.)

Thwaites, Reuben Gold,ed. Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806.

New York, Dodd,Mead & Co.,1904-05. 7 vols. text and 1 vol. maps. The only complete edition of Lewis and Clark.

Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. The Cradle of the Republic; Jamestown and James River.

American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1861.

New York, Appleton & Co.,1862. 780p. Contains a good account of the Secession Convention in Richmond and a list of all engagements in Virginia during the year.

Blanton, Wyndham Bolling. Medicine in Virginia in the Nineteenth Century.

Richmond, Garrett and Massie,Inc.,1933. 466p.,bibl. Includes surgeons during the War between the States. The author has published similar books on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, respectively 1930 and 1931.

New York, Appleton & Co.,1932. 283p. A well-documented study of agricultural conditions from 1820 to 1850; of secession in which Ruffin was a leader; and of the period during the war.

Davis, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.

New York, Appleton & Co.,1881. 2 vols.,portraits,maps.

Dodd, William E. Jefferson Davis.

Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs (1907). 396p. (American Crisis Series.) A well-documented biography of the president of the Confederacy.

Freeman, Douglas Southall. R.E.Lee, a Biography.

New York, London, Charles Scribner's Sons,1934-35. 4 vols.,illus.,maps,foot-notes,bibl. A history of the War between the States.

Gordon, George H. Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, in the War of the Great Rebelion, 1861-62.

(Cambridge, 1883.) 376p.,maps. A narrative, by a commander under General Banks, of operations in the Valley, of political commanders, of people of the Valley, and of the formation of Pope's army.

______History of the Campaign of the Army of Virginia under John Pope, from Cedar Mountain to Alexandria, 1862.

Boston, Houghton,Osgood & Co, 1880. 498p.,maps. A critical treatment, by a subordinate commander, of
Pope's campaign which ended with the second battle of Manassas.

Henderson, Col.G.F.R. Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War.

With an introduction by Field Marshall the late Right Hon. Viscount Wolseley. New York and London, Longmans,Green & Co. 1927. 2 vols.,maps. First
ed.1898.

Henry, Robert Selph. The Story of the Confederacy.

New and rev.ed. with foreword by Douglas S. Freeman. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Co. (1936). 514p.,maps and chronological table of engagements on land and along the
coast.

Hotchkiss, Maj.Jed. Virginia.

Atlanta, Confederate Publishing Co.,1899. 571p. of text, remainder biographical; 1295p. for distribution in Virginia, 692p. for distribution in other states. (Evans, C.A.,ed. Confederate Military History. vol.3.)

Johnson, Robert Underwood, and Clarence Clough Buel, editors. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.

New York, Century (1887-88). 4 vols. First pub. in Century Magazine, being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers.

McClellan, H.B. The Life and Campaigns of Major-General J.E.B.Stuart, Commander of the Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia.

Boston and New
York, Houghton Mifflin Co.; Richmond, J.W.Randolph & English,1885.
468p.,maps. The history of the corps, from its records, to the death of
Stuart in 1864.

McGregor, James C. The Disruption of Virginia.

New York, The Macmillan Co.,1922. 328p. A documented account of the formation of West Virginia.

Official Records of Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.

Series 1 and 2. Washington, Govt.Print.Off.,1894-1914,1927.31 vols.

Official Records of Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion.

Series 1, 2, 3, and 4 of army orders, reports, and correspondence, and civil correspondence. Washington, Govt.Print.Off.,1881-1901. 128 vols.

Pearson, Charles Chilton. The Readjuster Movement in Virginia.

New Haven, Yale Univ. Press,1917. 191p. Covers period of Mahoneism in Virginia.

Rhodes, James Ford. History of The Civil War, 1861-1865.

New York, The Macmillan Co.,1919. 454p.,maps. A comprehensive abridgment of the author's three-volume work.

Richardson, James D. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, including the Diplomatic Correspondence, 1861-1865.

Nashville, United States Publishing Co., 1906. 2 vols.

Schaff, Morris. The Sunset of the Confederacy.

Boston, J.W.Luce and Co. (1912). 302p.,maps.

Scharf, J.Thomas. History of the Confederate States Navy from its origin to the surrender of its last vessel.

New York, Rogers and Sherwood,1887. 824p.,illus., tables.

Scott, Major John. Partisan Life with Col. John S. Mosby.

New York, Harper & Bros., 1867. 492p.,illus. and sketches. A history of Mosby's command.

Southern Historical Society Papers, 1876--ed.

by R.A.Brock, et al. First Series, 1876-1910; vols. 1-6 published two a year; vols.7-38 annually; 38 vols. Second Series, 1910--; vols. 1-9 published occasionally; 9 vols. Richmond, Va:, by the Society, whole number 47 vols. Latest vol. published 1930. This series of papers contain a comprehensive collection of original narratives,
anecdotes, reports, and miscellaneous documentary material concerning the
Southern Cause in the War between the States.

Southern Historical Society Papers Index; 1876-1910.

First series of 38 vols.; compiled by Mrs.Kate Pleasants Minor. Richmond, D.Bottom, Supt.of Public Printing,1913. 139p.

Tremain, Henry Edwin. Last Hours of Sheridan's Cavalry.

A reprint of war memoranda. New York, Bonnell,Silver and Bowers,1904. 563p.,maps. A valuable contribution on the ten days preceding Lee's surrender.

Walker, Francis A. History of the Second Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons,1886. 737p.,maps,ports. A history of the activities of this, probably the most outstanding, corps of the Federal army in Virginia.

Trans. and comp. from the original autobiography of the Rev. James Fontaine, and other family manuscripts; comprising an original journal of travels in Virginia,etc., in 1715 and 1716. New York, G.P.Putnam's Sons, new ed.,1872. 512p. First pub. 1838 as 'A
tale of the Huguenots.'

Monroe, James. The Writings of James Monroe.

Ed. by Stanislaus Murray Hamilton. New York and London, G.P.Putnam's Sons,1898-1903. 7 vols.

Owen, Wm. Miller. In Camp and Battle with the Washington Artillery of New Orleans.

Boston, Ticknor and Company,1885. 467p.,illus.,maps. An interesting narrative of events from Bull Run to Appomattox, including portions of a diary; social events, Drewry's Bluff, defense of Fort Gregg, etc.

Richmond, by authority of Sub-Committee in Charge of Library, R.F.Walker, Supt. of Public Printing,1874. 106p. Contains the proceedings of the First Assembly,1619; list of living and dead in
1623; a list of the inhabitants ... in 1634; a list of the parishes in 1680;
etc.

Cooper, Hon.Thomas V. and Fenton, Hector T. American Politics.

Philadelphia, Fireside Publishing Co.,1882. 1058P. Contains history of political parties and their platforms; great speeches; texts of all political laws; tables--elections, financial, etc.

Eckenrode, Hamilton James. Political History of Virginia during the Reconstruction.

Richmond, D.Bottom, Supt. Public Printing,1910. 164p. (Special report of the Department of Archives and History.)

Executive Journals of the Councils of Colonial Virginia.

Ed. by Henry Read McIlwaine. Richmond, pub. by the Virginia State Library, 1925-30. 4 vols. Contains proceedings of the council from 1680 to 1739.

Hening's and Shepherd's Statutes at Large; being a collection of all the laws of Virginia from the first session of the legislature in 1619 to the session of 1807-08.

(First series), vols. 1-13, by William Waller Hening; Second series, vols. 1-3, by Samuel Shepherd. Various imprints--Richmond, New
York, Philadelphia. Pub. by Act of the General Assembly, February 1808,
1823-36. 16 vols. (Continued as Acts of the Assembly.)

Journals of the Council of the State of Virginia.

Ed. by H.R. McIlwaine. Richmond, pub. by the Virginia State Library, 1931-32. 2 vols. Contains proceedings July 1776 to November 1781.

Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776.

Ed. by John P. Kennedy and H.R. McIlwaine. Richmond, by authority of the Library Board of the Virginia State Library, 1905-15. 13 vols.

Journals of the House of Delegates, 1776- .

Published separately for each session of the Legislature, beginning with the session of 1776 and continuing to the present time. Printed by the public printer at the capital, Richmond (Williamsburg until 1780).

Journals of the Senate, 1776- .

Published separately for each session of the Legislature, beginning with the session of 1776 and continuing to the present time. Printed by the public printer at the capital, Richmond (Williamsburg until 1780).

(Journals of Virginia's Revolutionary Conventions.)

The proceedings of the conventions of delegates for the counties and corporations in the Colony of Virginia, held at Richmond and Williamsburg, 1775-76. Richmond, Ritchie, Truehart & Du-Val, reprinted by a Resolution of the House of Delegates,
1816. 229p.

McPherson, Edward. The Political History of the United States of America during the Great Rebellion.

Washington, Philp and Solomons, 2nd ed.,1865. 653p. A standard work. The author was clerk of the House of Representatives; he published a political history of Reconstruction and a number of political year-books.

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1931. 307p.,plates, ports. An account of Cyrus Hall McCormick, the McCormick harvester, and the business he created.

Newman, Clarence W., ed. Virginia, Economic and Civic.

Prepared in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in collaboration with the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce by R. Lee Humbert, Willard H. Humbert, and Melville L. Jeffries; foreword by the Hon. John Garland Pollard. Edited for the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce by Clarence W. Newman. Richmond, Whittet and Shepperson, 1933. 427p.,bibl.

Starnes, George Talmage, and Hamm, John Edwin. Some Phases of Labor Relations in Virginia.

New York, London, D. Appleton-Century Co., 1934, 151p. (University of Virginia Institute for Research in the Social Sciences.
Monograph No. 20.)

Philadelphia, J.B.Lippincott Co., new ed. (including Wise's index), 1931. 2 vols. A standard work, first printed in 1857 and reprinted in 1861 and 1872. J.M. Toner's index to Meade was issued in 1872, and Jennings Cropper Wise's index was issued in 1910.

Morrison, A.J. The Beginnings of Public Education in Virginia, 1776-1860.

Richmond, D. Bottom, Supt. of Public Printing,1917. 195p. Issued by the
State Board of Education.

Neill, Edward D. History of Education in Virginia during the Seventeenth Century.

Washington, Govt. Print. Off.,1867. 27p. Prepared for the U.S. Commissioner of Education.

Semple, Robert B. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia.

Revised and extended by Rev. G.W. Beale. Richmond, Pitt and Dickinson, 1894. 536p. Revision of a work published in 1810.

Trent, William P. English Culture in Virginia.

A Study of the Gilmer letters and an account of the English professors obtained by Thomas Jefferson for the University of Virginia. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University,1889. 141p. (Johns Hopkins University Studies.)

2nd ed. Washington,D.C., 1934. 452p.,illus.,maps. A handbook that plots distances of the Virginia-Maryland section of the Maine-to-Georgia hiker's trail and gives data on geology, wild-flowers, trees, first aid, and a selected bibliography.

With an introduction by Ellen Glasgow and a review of early American portraiture by Thomas B. Clarke. Richmond, The William Byrd Press, Inc.,1930. 556p.,plates, ports.,map,bibl. Commemorates an exhibit ... under the auspices of the Virginia Historical Society ... 1929.

A complete guide book to Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown. Richmond, Garrett and Massie,Inc.
(1936). 98p.,illus.

Mordecai, Samuel. Virginia, Especially Richmond, in By-gone Days; with a glance at the present.

2nd ed., with many corrections and additions. Richmond, West and Johnston, 1860. 359p. First pub. in 1856 as 'Richmond in by-gone days.' A valuable contemporary account of the city during the life of the author.